Two Doctors play very distinct villains December 19, 2013 THEATREAMERICAN PSYCHOAlmeida Theatre | By Steve DinneenFive Stars MATT Smith looks nothing like how I imagine Patrick Bateman, the axe-wielding investment banker at the heart of Bret Easton Ellis’ novel American Psycho. In fact, he doesn’t really look like any other human being apart, perhaps, from the guy who posed for the Easter Island statues. [...]
City Moves for 20 December 2013 | Who’s switching jobs December 19, 2013 Herbert Smith Freehills The law firm has announced the appointments of Sonya Leydecker (right) and Mark Rigotti as joint chief executives. Leydecker joined the firm in 1984 and was promoted to partner in 1991. Rigotti joined in 1988, and has since held senior roles including head of banking and head of corporate. KPMG The professional [...]
Best of the Brokers for 20 December 2013 December 19, 2013 To appear in Best of the Brokers, email your research to notes@cityam.com XCHANGING Panmure Gordon has picked the IT and outsourcing firm as one of its top picks for 2014, with a buy rating and 190p target, up from 160p. The broker thinks Xchanging will start to show underlying growth next year after several years of [...]
London Report: Pharma giants and Fed move lift FTSE to a two-week high December 19, 2013 BRITAIN’S main share index rose to a two-week high yesterday, helped by gains in pharmaceutical stocks and by a pledge from the US Federal Reserve to keep interest rates low. Some investors expect the blue-chip FTSE 100 index to rally into the end of 2013, forecasting gains of roughly 50-150 points between now and the [...]
New York Report: Stocks flat in Christmas lull December 19, 2013 US STOCKS finished mostly flat last night as investors paused after a rally in the previous session, though the Dow Jones Industrial Index closed at its second record high in a row. The Nasdaq declined slightly on weakness in tech shares, though its loss was limited by a rally in Oracle shares a day after [...]
2013 Christmas quiz: Test your knowledge December 19, 2013 Ian Stewart, Deloitte’s chief economist, poses the trickiest economics questions of the year 1. Between spring and autumn 2013, which of these countries received the largest upgrade to its 2013 GDP growth forecast from the IMF? a. Indiab. United Statesc. United Kingdom 2. Which luxury asset class saw the biggest increase in value between 2003 [...]
The Long View: Celebrate your festive commercialism – it’s an act of love in a free society December 19, 2013 IT’S A SHAME all the shopping has to spoil the true meaning of Christmas. Or so we get told at this time of year, usually by the same prophets of good cheer who want us to celebrate the season by donning hair shirts and cutting back on the booze. How wrong they are. And how [...]
Don’t let the Christmas curmudgeons dampen your holiday hedonism December 19, 2013 CHRISTMAS has become a magnet for miserabilists. Those sections of society that make a living from fretting over what the rest of us are eating, drinking and doing in our bedrooms are drawn to Christmas like moths to light, spying an opportunity to hector us about our gluttony and hedonism. It’s got to the stage [...]
Letters to the Editor – 20/12 – Cashless society, Tech teaching, Best of Twitter December 19, 2013 Cashless society [Re: With plastic banknotes set to arrive in 2016, will cash soon disappear entirely anyway?, yesterday] I agree that we are moving towards a cashless future. Not only have credit and debit cards already largely taken over from cash (the average consumer now carries just £20 in cash), but our forecasts show that [...]
Football Comment: The Trevors: Why Roberto Martinez is my man of 2013 December 19, 2013 MAN OF THE YEAR Once seen as a manager only good for relegation battles, nobody has had a stronger 2013 than Roberto Martinez. First, he won the FA Cup with Wigan, a club that had previously not been anywhere near it, upsetting firm favourites Manchester City in the final. He might have been unable to [...]
